Motivational Quotes

Life

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Life

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)

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Conrad, Joseph

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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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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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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 is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Santaguida, Paul

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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

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

Woody Allen

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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'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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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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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher