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

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Keller, Helen

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Shields, Carol

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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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 flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Hume, David

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William