Motivational Quotes

Life

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

- Pasternak, Boris

Best Quotes about Life

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

Nash, Ogden

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

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Billings, Josh

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.