Motivational Quotes

Life

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Fran Lebowitz

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Seneca

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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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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

30.

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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

James, William

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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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.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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.