Motivational Quotes

Life

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

- Percy, Walker

Best Quotes about Life

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Samuel Butler

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Bible

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Persian

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Santaguida, Paul

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

34.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

35.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Canetti, Elias

37.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Miller, Henry

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Norman Thomas

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne