Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Wright, Steven

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

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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.

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Dante Alighieri

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Isaac Asimov

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Camus, Albert

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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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.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock