Motivational Quotes

Life

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Erickson, Lou

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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Robert Heinlein

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Kempton, Murray

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

Cook, Robert A.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous