Motivational Quotes

Life

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

Kant, Immanuel

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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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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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.