Motivational Quotes

Life

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Buscaglia, Leo

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

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

10.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

11.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Gellert

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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 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

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

43.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

45.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren