Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Life

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

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

Maclaren, Alexander

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Linkletter, Art

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.