Motivational Quotes

Life

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Ben Stein

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Augustine, St.

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

Samuel Butler

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

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Aristotle

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Austen, Jane

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.