Motivational Quotes

Life

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

- Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Best Quotes about Life

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

Osler, Sir William

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

Allen, Fred A.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Ward, William A.

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

Bible

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Dane, Frank