Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Life

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

James, William

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Ciardi, John

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Mark Hodder

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

30.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Simon, Neil

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

40.

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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

William Shakespeare