Motivational Quotes

Life

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Life

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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 fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Seneca

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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

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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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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Nouwen, Henri

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.