Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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 is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Mark Hodder

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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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

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Mead, Margaret

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Southey, Robert

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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 life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Lennon, John

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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

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Heath, David M.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest