Motivational Quotes

Life

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Life

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

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Dawson, Roger

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

Lawrence, D. H.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

William Shakespeare

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Antrim, Minna

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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)

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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 but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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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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 not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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 must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Robert Heinlein

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

48.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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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