Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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 is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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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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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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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

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

25.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Newman, Peter C.

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.