Motivational Quotes

Life

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

- Mumford, Lewis

Best Quotes about Life

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

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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Mumford, Lewis

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

Norris, Kathleen

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Mountain, Marian

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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 worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]