Motivational Quotes

Life

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

- Wilde, Stuart

Best Quotes about Life

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

Socrates

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

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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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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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 goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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 is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Foreman, George

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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