Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Life

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

Live poor so you can die rich.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Lennon, John

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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 a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert