Motivational Quotes

Life

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

- Delacroix, Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

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

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Blackie, Professor

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Wickett, Michael

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Horace

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Gauguin, Paul

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.