Motivational Quotes

Life

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Life

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

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Seneca

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Caesar, Sid

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander