Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

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

Fields, W. C.

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

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

William Shakespeare

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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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Lennon, John

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Waitley, Denis

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Pliny The Elder