Motivational Quotes

Life

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

- Leacock, Stephen B.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Carson, Rachel

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Field, Joanna

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Robert Heinlein

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

Santayana, George

34.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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 get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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 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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard