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 not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Hayes, Helen

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Keller, Helen

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Burns, George

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.