Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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.

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

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

William Shakespeare

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Moses, Grandma

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

James, William

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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 don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian