Motivational Quotes
Life
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.

Best Quotes about Life
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Bachelard, Gaston
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ransom, Ralph
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Nouwen, Henri
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Wickett, Michael
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
Benjamin, Walter
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
Byron, Lord
Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.
Mark Hodder
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Rivarol, Antoine
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
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Einstein, Albert
The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Pavese, Cesare
Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
Baudrillard, Jean
The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
Eliot, T. S.
This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.
Mountain, Marian
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]
Bible
Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.
Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi
Live, let live, and help live
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
Cousteau, Jacques
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
Pliny The Elder
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
Markham, Edwin
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.
Hoagland, Edward
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
Santayana, George
I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
Augustus, Caesar
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
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
Santayana, George
Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.
Oprah Winfrey
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
I am sure care's an enemy to life.
William Shakespeare
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
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.
The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.
Lin-Chi
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
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
It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
Ruskin, John
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.
Carnegie, Dale
Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
Kempis, Thomas
Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.
Newman, Peter C.
The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
Mumford, Lewis
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Pilgrim, Peace
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.
Pepper, Claude D.
Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
Goldsmith, Oliver
Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.
Proverb
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Carlyle, Thomas
The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.
Yuan-Sou
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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