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

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Making a life comes before making a living.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Keller, Helen

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

12.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Shields, Carol

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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