Motivational Quotes

Life

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Life

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

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stoppard, Tom

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

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

10.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

11.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

12.

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

13.

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

14.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

15.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

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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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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

28.

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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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

30.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

31.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

32.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

34.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

35.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

40.

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

Alacia Bessette

41.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

42.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

43.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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.

45.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

46.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

49.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert