Motivational Quotes

Life

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

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

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Southey, Robert

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Shields, Carol

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Leno, Jay

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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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

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Field, Joanna