Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Life

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Ovid

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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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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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan