Motivational Quotes

Life

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Life

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Epicurus

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Seneca

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Pasternak, Boris

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Wickett, Michael

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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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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 is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya