Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Robert Heinlein

Best Quotes about Life

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Horace

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Powell, Robert

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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

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Forster, Edward M.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Ward, William A.

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

William Goldman

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Seneca

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker