Motivational Quotes

Life

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Life

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

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

Wickett, Michael

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Byron, Lord

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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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

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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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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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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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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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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

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray