Motivational Quotes

Life

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Simon, Neil

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Wickett, Michael

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Kornfield, Jack

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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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 crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Kempton, Murray

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane