Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Nouwen, Henri

Best Quotes about Life

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

John Lennon

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Lebowitz, Fran

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

12.

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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

15.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

19.

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

William Goldman

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

21.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Keller, Helen

24.

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

Larkin, Philip

25.

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

Simon, Neil

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Making a life comes before making a living.

27.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

28.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

29.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

31.

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

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

45.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

46.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

47.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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