Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

- Hayakawa, S. I.

Best Quotes about Life

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Making a life comes before making a living.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Wickett, Michael

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Blake, William

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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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 was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace