Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thoreau, Henry David

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Horace

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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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

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

Newman, Peter C.

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Young, J. Z.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Socrates

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

John Lennon

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Live poor so you can die rich.