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

Forster, Edward M.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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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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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb