Motivational Quotes

Life

This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

- Whitman, Walt

Best Quotes about Life

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Orben, Robert

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Shields, Carol

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Keller, Helen

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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

Hume, David

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Byron, Lord

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Gellert

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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