Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Life

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Blake, William

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Landers, Ann

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Dryden, John

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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