Motivational Quotes

Life

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

- Sara Zarr

Best Quotes about Life

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

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ciardi, John

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Gable, Clark

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

10.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

William Shakespeare

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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 rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Coriolanus III

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Ovid

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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.