Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

- Woolf, Virginia

Best Quotes about Life

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

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

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

11.

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

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Dante Alighieri

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Lennon, John

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Keller, Helen

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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 isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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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

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen