Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Life

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Sheen, Fulton John

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Russell, Bertrand

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Blake, William

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Dane, Frank

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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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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Platen

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian