Motivational Quotes

Life

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Hanks, Tom

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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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 has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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 four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Robert Heinlein

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr