Motivational Quotes

Life

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

- Wright, Steven

Best Quotes about Life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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

Platen

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Michelangelo

12.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Markham, Edwin

14.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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

18.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

22.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

28.

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

34.

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

Burns, George

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

Hanks, Tom

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

43.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

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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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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 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