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

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

Socrates

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

Isaac Asimov

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

Live poor so you can die rich.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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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 not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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

Coriolanus III

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Kempton, Murray

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.