Motivational Quotes

Life

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Russell, Lady R.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Erhard, Werner

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

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

Giles, Henry

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

Calhoun, John C.

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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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 pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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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

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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 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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.