Motivational Quotes

Life

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

- Cook, Robert A.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Lehrer, Tom

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

Buscaglia, Leo

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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