Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Havel, Vaclav

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Blake, William

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Lehrer, Tom

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.