Motivational Quotes

Life

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

- Baez, Joan

Best Quotes about Life

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

10.

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

May, Rollo

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Linkletter, Art

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

31.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ben Stein

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.