Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Erhard, Werner

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

10.

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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Allen, Fred A.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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