Motivational Quotes

Life

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

- Carson, Rachel

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Gurney, Robert

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

Canetti, Elias

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

Herold, Don

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

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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 catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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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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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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 painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

47.

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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard