Motivational Quotes

Life

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

- Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Best Quotes about Life

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Boese, Paul

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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

Mark Hodder

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

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Norris, Kathleen

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Byron, Lord

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Santayana, George

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Menander of Athens

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Butler, Philip