Motivational Quotes

Life

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Life

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Mark Hodder

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Orben, Robert

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Forster, Edward M.

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

29.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

33.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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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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

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

Facult, F. Paul

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril