Motivational Quotes

Life

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

- Yuan-Sou

Best Quotes about Life

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

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Herold, Don

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Shields, Carol

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.