Motivational Quotes

Life

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Life

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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

Presser, Ross

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

Kennedy, John F.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Live poor so you can die rich.

13.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Cabell, James Branch

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

18.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

19.

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

27.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Coallier, Steven

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

31.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

34.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

42.

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

Field, Joanna

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Kempton, Murray

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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