Motivational Quotes

Life

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

- Young, J. Z.

Best Quotes about Life

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

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Camus, Albert

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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 a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Cioran, E. M.

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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