Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Kempis, Thomas

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Maclaren, Alexander

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

10.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

11.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

12.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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

14.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

15.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

16.

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

17.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

18.

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

Nouwen, Henri

19.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

21.

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

22.

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

24.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

25.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

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

27.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

28.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

29.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

30.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

32.

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

33.

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

34.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

38.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

39.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

40.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

41.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

42.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

46.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

47.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

48.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

49.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

50.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.