Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

- Gauguin, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Gurney, Robert

10.

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

Hume, David

11.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

15.

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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

17.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

18.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

19.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

20.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

25.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

29.

Live poor so you can die rich.

30.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

32.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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 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

39.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Antrim, Minna

41.

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

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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 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

49.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria