Motivational Quotes

Life

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

- Salisbury, Harrison

Best Quotes about Life

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lehrer, Tom

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heath, David M.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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

James, William

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

10.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Lin-Chi

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

18.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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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

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

29.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Michelangelo

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

39.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.