Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Pasternak, Boris

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Bachelard, Gaston

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Wickett, Michael

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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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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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

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

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Santayana, George

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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 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