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

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Keller, Helen

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Dawson, Roger

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Heath, David M.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

25.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

26.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

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

James, William

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

44.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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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