Motivational Quotes

Life

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Samuel Butler

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Simon, Neil

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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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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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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Hanks, Tom

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mountain, Marian

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

Isaac Asimov

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

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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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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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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley