Motivational Quotes

Life

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Keller, Helen

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

12.

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

Powell, Robert

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Lennon, John

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.