Motivational Quotes

Life

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

- Rogers, Carl

Best Quotes about Life

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ciardi, John

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Coallier, Steven

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Bacon, Francis

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George