Motivational Quotes

Life

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

- Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Bacon, Francis

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Truman Capote

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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 a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green