Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Life

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

Mark Hodder

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Horace

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

11.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

12.

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

John Lennon

13.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

18.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

19.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

21.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

22.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Connolly, Cyril

24.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

30.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

31.

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

Cioran, E. M.

32.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

33.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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

35.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

36.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

40.

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

Seneca

41.

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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Lin-Chi

47.

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

48.

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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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