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

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Truman Capote

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)

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Aristotle

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Miller, Henry

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.