Motivational Quotes

Life

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

- Hayes, Helen

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kornfield, Jack

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Piatt, Don

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Conrad, Joseph

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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