Motivational Quotes

Life

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Young, J. Z.

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

Shakespeare, William

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Isherwood, Christopher

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

10.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

11.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

William Goldman

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

24.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

May, Rollo

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

Lennon, John

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

James, William

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Hanks, Tom

45.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel