Motivational Quotes

Life

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

- Schaeffer, Francis

Best Quotes about Life

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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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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

11.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

12.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

13.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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

15.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

19.

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.

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

Santayana, George

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

25.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

31.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

32.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

33.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

35.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Lennon, John

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

48.

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

49.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief