Motivational Quotes

Life

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

- Tomlin, Lily

Best Quotes about Life

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.