Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

Making a life comes before making a living.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, 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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Harington, Donald

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.