Motivational Quotes

Life

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Life

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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

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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

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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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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

15.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Santayana, George

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Sir Winston Churchill

39.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

44.

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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Harington, Donald

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.