Motivational Quotes

Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Life

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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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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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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

Santayana, George

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

Kant, Immanuel

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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.