Motivational Quotes

Life

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dawson, Roger

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

10.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Byron, Lord

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Proverb, Persian

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip