Motivational Quotes

Life

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

- Thomas, Dylan

Best Quotes about Life

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Pepper, Claude D.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

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

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

Lennon, John

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Miller, Henry

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.