Motivational Quotes

Life

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Best Quotes about Life

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

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

12.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Temple, Sir William

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hayes, Helen

29.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

32.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

35.

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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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