Motivational Quotes

Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

- Irving, John

Best Quotes about Life

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

Live poor so you can die rich.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Barrymore, John

19.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

30.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination