Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Lennon, John

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wright, Steven

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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