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 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

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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

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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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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Norman Thomas

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin