Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

- Woody Allen

Best Quotes about Life

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

Norris, Kathleen

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Santayana, George

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

11.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

12.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

27.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Keller, Helen

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Proverb, German