Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Herzen, Alexander

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Wolfe, Thomas

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Linkletter, Art

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

13.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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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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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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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

23.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

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

30.

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

Tomlin, Lily

31.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

32.

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

33.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

34.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Herzen, Alexander

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Live poor so you can die rich.

44.

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 isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Powell, Robert