Motivational Quotes

Life

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

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

Camus, Albert

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Blake, William

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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 found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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

Michelangelo

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Proverb, German

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven