Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Harington, Donald

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

William Shakespeare

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Erhard, Werner

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

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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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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur