Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

- Walpole, Horace

Best Quotes about Life

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Heath, David M.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Keller, Helen

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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 must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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