Motivational Quotes

Life

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

- Lin-Chi

Best Quotes about Life

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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

Kempis, Thomas

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Hanks, Tom

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Woody Allen

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

May, Rollo

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Santaguida, Paul

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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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