Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Butler, Philip

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

William Shakespeare

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

Mead, Margaret

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Ovid

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

Fran Lebowitz

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Austen, Jane

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

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