Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Life

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Seneca

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Tomlin, Lily

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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 not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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