Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Life

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Wise, Alfonso The

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Austen, Jane

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

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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