Motivational Quotes

Life

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

- Southey, Robert

Best Quotes about Life

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

Samuel Butler

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

10.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

11.

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

12.

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

13.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

14.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

17.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

18.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

20.

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

21.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

26.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

27.

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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

46.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Camus, Albert