Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is just a journey

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Life

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Markham, Edwin

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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, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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

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

Alacia Bessette

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Austen, Jane

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Nash, Ogden

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De