Motivational Quotes

Life

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Cabell, James Branch

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Crisp, Quentin

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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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

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Santayana, George

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

John Lennon

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

May, Rollo

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

Pasternak, Boris