Motivational Quotes

Life

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

23.

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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lennon, John

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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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

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.