Motivational Quotes

Life

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Life

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

May, Rollo

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

Wickett, Michael

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Keller, Helen

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

10.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

11.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

12.

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

Foreman, George

13.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

16.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

32.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

46.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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