Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Simon, Neil

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Lennon, John

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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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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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus