Motivational Quotes

Life

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Life

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

Lin-Chi

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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 poor so you can die rich.

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, 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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Coriolanus III

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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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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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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