Motivational Quotes

Life

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Linkletter, Art

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

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

10.

Live poor so you can die rich.

11.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

12.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

16.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

17.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

19.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

23.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

24.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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.

27.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

28.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

29.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

32.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

33.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

34.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

43.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

44.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

45.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

46.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

47.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

49.

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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David