Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

- Redfield, James

Best Quotes about Life

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Making a life comes before making a living.

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Lin-Chi

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Coriolanus III

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Camus, Albert

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane