Motivational Quotes

Life

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

Moses, Grandma

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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