Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Austen, Jane

Best Quotes about Life

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Powell, Robert

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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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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 loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

14.

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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Horace

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

20.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

21.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

29.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

30.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

31.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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.