Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a state of mind.

- Warden, Jack

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Santayana, George

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

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, Persian

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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 very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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

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

Erhard, Werner

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich