Motivational Quotes

Life

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

- Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Best Quotes about Life

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

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Burns, George

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Wright, Steven

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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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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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.