Motivational Quotes

Life

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Life

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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

Fieldes, Christopher

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Gauguin, Paul

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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 is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Ovid

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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 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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Carson, Rachel

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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

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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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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Fields, W. C.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.