Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fields, W. C.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Robbins, Anthony

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Schmaltz, David A.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Ben Stein

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Gauguin, Paul

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Wright, Steven

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

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.