Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Life

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

Ward, William A.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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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 is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

28.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Lennon, John

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia