Motivational Quotes

Life

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

- Curie, Madame Marie

Best Quotes about Life

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Linkletter, Art

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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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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Santayana, George

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.