Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

- Aleichem, Sholom

Best Quotes about Life

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Gurney, Robert

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

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

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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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

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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