Motivational Quotes

Life

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

- Louis Schwartzberg

Best Quotes about Life

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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 -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Hume, David

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.