Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Linkletter, Art

Best Quotes about Life

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

10.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

15.

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

Mountain, Marian

16.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

17.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

18.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kornfield, Jack

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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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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

25.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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

Canetti, Elias

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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

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dawson, Roger

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

48.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

50.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt