Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Waitley, Denis

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

13.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

21.

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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

26.

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

Kempton, Murray

27.

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

Stoppard, Tom

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

31.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

32.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

40.

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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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

42.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

43.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

44.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

John Lennon

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges