Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Bachelard, Gaston

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Kornfield, Jack

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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 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

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

Socrates

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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 interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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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

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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

Pepper, Claude D.