Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Life

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Epicurus

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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 good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Shields, Carol

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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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.

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

Blake, William

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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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 comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Michelangelo

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.