Motivational Quotes

Life

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

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Best Quotes about Life

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Lehrer, Tom

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Giles, Henry

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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.

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Heath, David M.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert