Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gellert

Best Quotes about Life

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Allen, Fred A.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Michelangelo

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

Orben, Robert

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Ovid

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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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

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Keller, Helen

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey