Motivational Quotes

Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Life

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.

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

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Socrates

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Landers, Ann

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

27.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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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

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

Heath, David M.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Austen, Jane

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Ciardi, John

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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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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo