Motivational Quotes

Life

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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Best Quotes about Life

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Shields, Carol

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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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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 is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.