Motivational Quotes

Life

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Aristotle

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Simon, Neil

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

James, William

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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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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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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

38.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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 a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.