Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Waitley, Denis

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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.

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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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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

John Lennon

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

42.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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

William Shakespeare

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De