Motivational Quotes

Life

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

- Barrymore, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kornfield, Jack

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

McMillan, Terry

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

John Lennon

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Austen, Jane

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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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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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 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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Menander of Athens

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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