Motivational Quotes

Life

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Life

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Rogers, Carl

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Horton, Doug

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

Austen, Jane

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Live poor so you can die rich.

16.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

17.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Mead, Margaret

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Seneca

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Horace

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Dickens, Charles

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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.

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.