Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Life

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

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

Delacroix, Eugene

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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.

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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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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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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

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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