Motivational Quotes

Life

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Life

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Piatt, Don

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Hume, David

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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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

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Dawson, Roger

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur