Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dimnet, Ernest

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

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

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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

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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

14.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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

18.

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

Miller, Henry

19.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

20.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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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

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

23.

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

24.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

25.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

28.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

29.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

30.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

31.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

32.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

34.

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

Field, Joanna

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

37.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Lennon, John

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

44.

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

Dane, Frank

45.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

47.

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

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

49.

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

Blake, William

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo