Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mark Hodder

Best Quotes about Life

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Fran Lebowitz

10.

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

Camus, Albert

11.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

12.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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 person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

22.

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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

25.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

26.

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

27.

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

28.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

30.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

31.

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

32.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

33.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

35.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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

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

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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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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

49.

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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven