Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Proverb, Indian

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

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.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

10.

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

Kornfield, Jack

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Menander of Athens

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Powell, Robert

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Barrymore, John