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

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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 was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gellert