Motivational Quotes

Life

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Life

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Samuel Butler

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Erhard, Werner

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

11.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Keller, Helen

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

28.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Powell, Robert

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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 isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Making a life comes before making a living.