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

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

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

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

James, William

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Duncan, Isadora

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.