Motivational Quotes

Life

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Life

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Berenson, Bernard

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

10.

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

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

15.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

16.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

18.

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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

22.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

23.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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 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

27.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

28.

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

Dawson, Roger

29.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

30.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

31.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

32.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

37.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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

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

Steve Jobs

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

43.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

45.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

46.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

47.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

48.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.