Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Alacia Bessette

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

John Lennon

10.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

11.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

18.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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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

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

31.

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

32.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

33.

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

34.

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

35.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

36.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

40.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

41.

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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

49.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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