Motivational Quotes

Life

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

- Harington, Donald

Best Quotes about Life

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

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

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Camus, Albert

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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

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

Austen, Jane

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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