Motivational Quotes

Life

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Ciardi, John

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Moses, Grandma

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

13.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

15.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

28.

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

Wright, Steven

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

John Lennon

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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 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 without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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 has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine