Motivational Quotes

Life

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

- O'Reilly, Radar

Best Quotes about Life

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

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

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

Duncan, Isadora

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

10.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

11.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

12.

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

13.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

14.

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

15.

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

Heath, David M.

16.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

17.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

18.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

19.

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

May, Rollo

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

24.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

25.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

26.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

27.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

28.

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

30.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

31.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

32.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

34.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

35.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

36.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

39.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

40.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

41.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

42.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

43.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

44.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

46.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

47.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

48.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

49.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

50.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.