Motivational Quotes

Life

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

- Ackerman, Diane

Best Quotes about Life

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

10.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

11.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

13.

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

Isaac Asimov

14.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

15.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

18.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

19.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

20.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

21.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

22.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

23.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

24.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

25.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

26.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

27.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

29.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

30.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

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

Piatt, Don

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

36.

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

Camus, Albert

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

38.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

40.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

42.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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

44.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

46.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

47.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

48.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

49.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]