Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Blake, William

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 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

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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 petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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

Southey, Robert

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.