Motivational Quotes

Life

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

- Campbell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Conrad, Joseph

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Pope John XXIII

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Aristotle

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Camus, Albert

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

John Lennon

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.