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

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

Lennon, John

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Horace

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pope John XXIII

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Campbell, Joseph

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hayes, Helen

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William