Motivational Quotes

Life

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Life

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

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Kennedy, John F.

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Ciardi, John

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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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

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Simon, Neil

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.