Motivational Quotes

Life

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Life

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Brendan Gill

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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 life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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