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

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

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

10.

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Fuller, Thomas

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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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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

18.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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 full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

41.

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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo