Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Life

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

Gable, Clark

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Gellert

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Austen, Jane

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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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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 uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry