Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Wickett, Michael

Best Quotes about Life

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Seneca

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Tomlin, Lily

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Blake, William

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.