Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Lennon, John

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

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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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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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Herold, Don

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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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.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert