Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Shields, Carol

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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.

12.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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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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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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 web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

McMillan, Terry

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

Facult, F. Paul

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Forster, Edward M.

32.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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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 not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Lennon, John

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

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden