Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dewey, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Life

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Lin-Chi

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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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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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker