Motivational Quotes

Life

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Life

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Seneca

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Facult, F. Paul

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

Austen, Jane

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Canetti, Elias

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare