Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

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

Robert Heinlein

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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Einstein, Albert

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Blackie, Professor

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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