Motivational Quotes

Life

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

- Zeno

Best Quotes about Life

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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

Pliny The Elder

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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 begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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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 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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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