Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Kornfield, Jack

Best Quotes about Life

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nash, Ogden

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Lennon, John

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Young, J. Z.

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Feidelson, Charles

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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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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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand