Motivational Quotes

Life

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

- Norman Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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

Hume, David

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

Canetti, Elias

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fields, W. C.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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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 itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Mountain, Marian

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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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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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