Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a dead-end street.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

John Lennon

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

12.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Pliny The Elder

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

25.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Making a life comes before making a living.

28.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

33.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

37.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne