Motivational Quotes

Life

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Dante Alighieri

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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.