Motivational Quotes

Life

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

- KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Debevoise, P. L.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Havel, Vaclav

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Feidelson, Charles

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Presser, Ross

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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