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

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Brendan Gill

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Austen, Jane

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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.