Motivational Quotes

Life

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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.

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

James, William

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Camus, Albert

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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 a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Lehrer, Tom

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.