Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Roosevelt, Eleanor

Best Quotes about Life

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

John Lennon

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Piatt, Don

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

10.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

11.

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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Seneca

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

22.

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

Horace

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

31.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

32.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Coallier, Steven

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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 not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Crisp, Quentin