Motivational Quotes

Life

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Life

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Byron, Lord

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Pasternak, Boris

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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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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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Linkletter, Art

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Lehrer, Tom

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Gellert

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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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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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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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