Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Robert Heinlein

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Keller, Helen

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

John Lennon

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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 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 the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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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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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor