Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Kempis, Thomas

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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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

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

Kempton, Murray

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Mead, Margaret

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 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

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

Byron, Lord

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.