Motivational Quotes

Life

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

- Giles, Henry

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

10.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

11.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

12.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

16.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

21.

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Dickens, Charles

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

24.

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

McMillan, Terry

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

30.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

31.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

32.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

33.

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

34.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

44.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

45.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

46.

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's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.