Motivational Quotes

Life

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

- Fo-Yan

Best Quotes about Life

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Angelou, Maya

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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

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

Temple, Sir William

12.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

13.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Ovid

21.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Blackie, Professor

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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

Camus, Albert