Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Temple, Sir William

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Lennon, John

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

18.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

19.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Kempton, Murray

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Canetti, Elias

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

James, William

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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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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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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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