Motivational Quotes

Life

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kornfield, Jack

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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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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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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright