Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

John Lennon

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

James, William

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Simon, Neil

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Cioran, E. M.

28.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

37.

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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Frankl, Viktor E.