Motivational Quotes

Life

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Canetti, Elias

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Presser, Ross

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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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

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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