Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Leno, Jay

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Robert Heinlein

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Feidelson, Charles

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean