Motivational Quotes

Life

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

- Stark, Freya

Best Quotes about Life

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

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

Hume, David

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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

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

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Miller, Henry

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Steve Jobs

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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

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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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]

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