Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

- Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Best Quotes about Life

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Shields, Carol

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

Gurney, Robert

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

McMillan, Terry

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aristotle

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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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 art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Forster, Edward M.