Motivational Quotes

Life

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

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

Fields, W. C.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Hume, David

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Seneca

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

10.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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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

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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