Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Curie, Madame Marie

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Boulanger, Nadia

43.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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 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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine