Motivational Quotes

Life

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

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

Boese, Paul

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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 energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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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 just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Calhoun, John C.

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Pope John XXIII

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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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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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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas