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

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Gauguin, Paul

10.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

11.

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

Miller, Henry

12.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

13.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

14.

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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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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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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

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

23.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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

Prochnow, Herbert

25.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

26.

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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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

30.

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

Menander of Athens

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Canetti, Elias

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Steve Jobs

43.

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

Field, Joanna

44.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

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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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

49.

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

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Schuller, Robert H.