Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Thibodeau, Robert

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Ward, William A.

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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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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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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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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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Michelangelo

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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