Motivational Quotes

Life

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

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 is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dimnet, Ernest

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

10.

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

12.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

13.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

20.

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Pope John XXIII

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lennon, John

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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 is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

39.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

41.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Moses, Grandma

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Temple, Sir William

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard