Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Linkletter, Art

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

10.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

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

Bible

13.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

14.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

15.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

16.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

17.

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

18.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

23.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

24.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

25.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

26.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

27.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

28.

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

Keller, Helen

29.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

31.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

32.

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

Kant, Immanuel

33.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

34.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

36.

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

Horace

37.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

40.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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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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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

46.

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

49.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Caesar, Sid