Motivational Quotes

Life

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Life

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Ward, William A.

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

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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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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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

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Dante Alighieri

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst