Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Cook, Robert A.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

10.

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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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

14.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

15.

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

Pope John XXIII

16.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

17.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

28.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

29.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

30.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

31.

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

32.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Horace

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

44.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry