Motivational Quotes

Life

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

- Kornfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Life

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Horton, Doug

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

Fran Lebowitz

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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

Herzen, Alexander

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.