Motivational Quotes

Life

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Life

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

11.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Giles, Henry

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Horace

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

Kempton, Murray

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

47.

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

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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