Motivational Quotes

Life

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Einstein, Albert

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Aristotle

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

May, Rollo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Giles, Henry