Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

- Thornton Wilder

Best Quotes about Life

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

Erhard, Werner

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Ciardi, John

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

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Gellert

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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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

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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 the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Coallier, Steven