Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Life

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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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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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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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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 a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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