Motivational Quotes

Life

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

- Markham, Edwin

Best Quotes about Life

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Mountain, Marian

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

12.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

24.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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