Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Robert Heinlein

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

10.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

11.

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

12.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

13.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

14.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Fran Lebowitz

16.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

17.

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

Waitley, Denis

18.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

19.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

20.

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

21.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

23.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

26.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

27.

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

Kempis, Thomas

28.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

30.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

31.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

33.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

34.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

35.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

36.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

37.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

40.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

41.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

44.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

45.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

46.

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

Shields, Carol

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

49.

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

50.

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

Dawson, Roger