Motivational Quotes

Life

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Life

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

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 not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Alacia Bessette

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.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Lennon, John

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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