Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Nouwen, Henri

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

William Shakespeare

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

William Goldman

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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 isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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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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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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

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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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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 an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder