Motivational Quotes

Life

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Erhard, Werner

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Tomlin, Lily

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Huxley, Aldous

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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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 just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil