Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

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

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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Gurney, Robert

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Field, Joanna

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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul