Motivational Quotes

Life

Real life seems to have no plots.

- Burnett, Ivy Compton

Best Quotes about 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

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

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

Wickett, Michael

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

11.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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 is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Herzen, Alexander

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Norman Thomas

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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.