Motivational Quotes

Life

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

- Erhard, Werner

Best Quotes about Life

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Havel, Vaclav

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Duncan, Isadora

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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 like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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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 a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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

Butler, Samuel

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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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

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.