Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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

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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 Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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 dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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

Herold, Don

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

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Welsh, John