Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Nabokov, Vladimir

Best Quotes about Life

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

Live poor so you can die rich.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Nouwen, Henri

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Harington, Donald

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles