Motivational Quotes

Life

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

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

Epicurus

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Markham, Edwin

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

Keller, Helen

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.