Motivational Quotes

Life

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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

Mountain, Marian

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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

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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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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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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Camus, Albert

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Bible

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

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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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