Motivational Quotes

Life

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

May, Rollo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

John Lennon

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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

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

William Goldman

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

41.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

42.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Duncan, Isadora

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.