Motivational Quotes

Life

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

- Jonathan Haidt

Best Quotes about Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Markiewicz, William

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

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Samuel Butler

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Harington, Donald

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

46.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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 but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis