Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Best Quotes about Life

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Herzen, Alexander

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

11.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Gellert

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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