Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lawrence, D. H.

Best Quotes about Life

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Presser, Ross

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

10.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

11.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

12.

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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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Tomlin, Lily

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

18.

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.

19.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

20.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

21.

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

Mark Hodder

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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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

25.

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 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

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

33.

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

Welsh, John

34.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clark, Frank A.

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