Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a long lesson in humility.

- James M. Barrie

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Waitley, Denis

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Hanks, Tom

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Young, J. Z.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.