Motivational Quotes

Life

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Caesar, Sid

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Hewitt, George T.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

James, William

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Blake, William

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Fields, W. C.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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 surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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.

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

Carson, Johnny

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry