Motivational Quotes

Life

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

- Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Best Quotes about Life

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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 thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

40.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Blake, William

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.