Motivational Quotes

Life

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

- Rogers, Carl

Best Quotes about Life

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robert Heinlein

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

31.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

William Goldman

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carson, Johnny

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest