Motivational Quotes

Life

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

- Nee, Watchman

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kennedy, John F.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Bible

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Harington, Donald

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

22.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

John Lennon

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Santayana, George

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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