Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

- Movie, Forrest Gump

Best Quotes about Life

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

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Pasternak, Boris

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

Proverb, German

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Gellert

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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)

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

William Shakespeare

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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 life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo