Motivational Quotes

Life

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

- Wickett, Michael

Best Quotes about Life

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Thibodeau, Robert

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

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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