Motivational Quotes

Life

My art and profession is to live.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Santayana, George

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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 an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Samuel Butler

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov