Motivational Quotes

Life

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Life

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Larkin, Philip

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Mountain, Marian

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry