Motivational Quotes

Life

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Life

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

To a wise man every day is a new life.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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

Keller, Helen

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Kornfield, Jack

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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

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

30.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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