Motivational Quotes

Life

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Life

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

John Lennon

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Daniel Akst

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert