Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

1.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

2.

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

3.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

4.

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

Allen, Fred A.

5.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

6.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

7.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

8.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

10.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

11.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

12.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

13.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

15.

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.

16.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

17.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

20.

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

21.

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

22.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

23.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Huxley, Aldous

25.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

26.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Horace

29.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

30.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

31.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

32.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

34.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

36.

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

Mark Hodder

37.

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

38.

Making a life comes before making a living.

39.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

40.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

41.

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

Feidelson, Charles

42.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

43.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

44.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

45.

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

46.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

47.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

48.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

49.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

50.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma