Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lennon, John

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Fields, W. C.

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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 is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

John Lennon

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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 cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

48.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane