Motivational Quotes

Life

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

- Yuan-Sou

Best Quotes about Life

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Powell, Robert

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

Augustine, St.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Menander of Athens

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

18.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

30.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

31.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

40.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Making a life comes before making a living.

42.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Larkin, Philip

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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