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 a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lennon, John

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

John Lennon

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Bacon, Francis

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Horton, Doug

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Tomlin, Lily

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Fuller, Thomas

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert