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

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

McMillan, Terry

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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.

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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Ward, William A.

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.