Motivational Quotes

Life

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

- Dunnington, Lewis L

Best Quotes about Life

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Seneca

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Blake, William

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David