Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Facult, F. Paul

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Bacon, Francis

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Wright, Steven

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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