Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Leno, Jay

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Epicurus

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

18.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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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 a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Samuel Butler

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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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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James