Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Best Quotes about Life

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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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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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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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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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Temple, Sir William

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Brodsky, Joseph

43.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

49.

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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise