Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- May, Rollo

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Feidelson, Charles

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Dickens, Charles

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

30.

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

Proverb, Scottish

31.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

35.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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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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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord