Motivational Quotes

Life

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

- Fo-Yan

Best Quotes about Life

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

47.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.