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 itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Camus, Albert

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

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

10.

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Proverb, Persian

12.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Schmaltz, David A.

15.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

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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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 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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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Cousteau, Jacques

28.

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

Boese, Paul

29.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Waitley, Denis

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

44.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

45.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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

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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 a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don