Motivational Quotes

Life

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

- Basset, Lucinda

Best Quotes about Life

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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.

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Keller, Helen

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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 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

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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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

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Horace

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.