Motivational Quotes

Life

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

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Best Quotes about Life

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

11.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

12.

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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Camus, Albert

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

18.

Live poor so you can die rich.

19.

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

Dawson, Roger

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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

25.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

32.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

42.

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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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

45.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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