Motivational Quotes

Life

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Santayana, George

18.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

25.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

31.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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

33.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Caesar, Sid

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.