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

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

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

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

Herzen, Alexander

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Samuel Butler

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Santayana, George

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Simon, Neil

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank 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