Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Gellert

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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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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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

William Goldman

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Herold, Don

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Socrates

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

Gable, Clark

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul