Motivational Quotes

Life

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Life

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

18.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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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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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Camus, Albert

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Truman Capote

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