Motivational Quotes

Life

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

12.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

13.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

18.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Proverb, Persian

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

38.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Daniel Akst