Motivational Quotes

Life

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Life

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Aristotle

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Markham, Edwin

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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 like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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