Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Life

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

Proverb, Scottish

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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

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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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Young, J. Z.

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

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Austen, Jane

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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.

Leno, Jay

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.