Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

- Walpole, Horace

Best Quotes about Life

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Havel, Vaclav

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 is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Proverb, Persian

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Seneca

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Simon, Neil

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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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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

La Bruyere, Jean De