Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Leno, Jay

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

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

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

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Proverb, Persian

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

10.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

12.

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

13.

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

Mark Hodder

14.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Giles, Henry

20.

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

Byron, Lord

21.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

24.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

25.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

26.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

27.

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

28.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

29.

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

Pliny The Elder

30.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

34.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

35.

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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

37.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

38.

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

Presser, Ross

39.

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

40.

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

Austen, Jane

41.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

42.

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

43.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

44.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

45.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

46.

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

47.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

48.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Carson, Johnny

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin