Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Alacia Bessette

Best Quotes about Life

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

10.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

11.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

15.

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

Michelangelo

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

18.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

19.

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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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

23.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Larkin, Philip

27.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

28.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

29.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

31.

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

Dryden, John

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

41.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

45.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

46.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily