Motivational Quotes

Life

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Life

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Welsh, John

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Hayes, Helen

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

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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 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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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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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey