Motivational Quotes

Life

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Life

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

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Heath, David M.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Live poor so you can die rich.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Presser, Ross

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Markham, Edwin

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ward, William A.

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.