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

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Linkletter, Art

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Horace

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

32.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Seneca

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Dickens, Charles

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George