Motivational Quotes

Life

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Life

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

Bachelard, Gaston

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hubbard, Elbert

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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.

39.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Samuel Butler

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William