Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

- Booth, Evangeline Cory

Best Quotes about Life

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

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

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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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

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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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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Foreman, George

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

William Shakespeare

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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 itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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