Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Gellert

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 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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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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

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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.