Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

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

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Isaac Asimov

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

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

11.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

12.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Dante Alighieri

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Clark, Frank A.

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

31.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

32.

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Kant, Immanuel

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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