Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

- Isaac Asimov

Best Quotes about Life

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Russell, Lady R.

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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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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

William Goldman

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Heath, David M.

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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 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

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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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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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.

Proverb