Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Socrates

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

Kornfield, Jack

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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 is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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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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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Nouwen, Henri

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Santayana, George

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