Motivational Quotes

Life

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Seneca

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

10.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

12.

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

Keller, Helen

13.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Russell, Lady R.

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

23.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

25.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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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

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Isaac Asimov

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.