Motivational Quotes

Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Life

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Santayana, George

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

10.

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

11.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

13.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Stoppard, Tom

21.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

22.

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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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 never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

35.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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I think we're here for each other.