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

Wolfe, Thomas

Live poor so you can die rich.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

10.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Blake, William

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Simon, Neil

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid