Motivational Quotes

Life

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

- Buechner, Frederick

Best Quotes about Life

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Markham, Edwin

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

11.

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Gellert

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rogers, Will

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

27.

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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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 ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kennedy, John F.

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

34.

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

Presser, Ross

35.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

36.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

38.

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

44.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.