Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Wright, Steven

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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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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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Dawson, Roger

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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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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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