Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kornfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Life

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shields, Carol

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Pope John XXIII

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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