Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Life

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

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Lennon, John

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Camus, Albert

10.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

11.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Proverb, Persian

13.

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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

15.

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

16.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

19.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

20.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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

32.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

35.

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

Keller, Helen

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

37.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

38.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

49.

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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman