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

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Markiewicz, William

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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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna