Motivational Quotes

Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

- Ackerman, Diane

Best Quotes about Life

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

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Bachelard, Gaston

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Antrim, Minna

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

25.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Herold, Don

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Wickett, Michael

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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.