Motivational Quotes

Life

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

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

Southey, Robert

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

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

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Blake, William

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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.

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Cabell, James Branch

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy