Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Life

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Kennedy, John F.

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Ovid

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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

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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

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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 game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Russell, Bertrand

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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 a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.