Motivational Quotes

Life

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

John Lennon

10.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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 not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael