Motivational Quotes

Life

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Norman Thomas

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Dickens, Charles

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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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

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

28.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Kornfield, Jack

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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.

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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

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Fields, W. C.

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph