Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kornfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Life

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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.

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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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

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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 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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Herold, Don

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Dane, Frank

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De