Motivational Quotes

Life

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

- Humphrey, Hubert H.

Best Quotes about Life

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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

Bible

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

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bacon, Francis

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Ovid

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Fran Lebowitz

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Herzen, Alexander

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

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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

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.