Motivational Quotes

Life

My art and profession is to live.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Epicurus

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Blake, William

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

Blackie, Professor

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

18.

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

Isaac Asimov

19.

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

Young, J. Z.

20.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

22.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

23.

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

Canetti, Elias

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Simon, Neil

29.

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

Harington, Donald

30.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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

35.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor