Motivational Quotes

Life

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

- Yuan-Sou

Best Quotes about Life

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

Dane, Frank

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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

Mark Hodder

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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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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

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Yuan-Sou

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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

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Alacia Bessette

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late