Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Proverb, Scottish

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

10.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

11.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

12.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

16.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

17.

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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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

19.

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

20.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

21.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

24.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

25.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

26.

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

27.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

29.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

30.

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

Linkletter, Art

31.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

32.

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

Caesar, Sid

33.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Young, J. Z.

40.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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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.

44.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

45.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.