Motivational Quotes

Life

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about 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

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Young, J. Z.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

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

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Socrates

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don