Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Baluch, Joy

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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 has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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 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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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Menander of Athens

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All that man has will he give for his life.