Motivational Quotes

Life

No one knows when they are well off.

- Punch

Best Quotes about Life

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Wright, Steven

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

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

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

Proverb, Scottish

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Nouwen, Henri

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Simon, Neil

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Nash, Ogden

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.