Motivational Quotes

Life

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Best Quotes about Life

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Orben, Robert

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

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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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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

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean