Motivational Quotes

Life

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Carson, Rachel

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

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Norris, Kathleen

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel 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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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 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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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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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 average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

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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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo