Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Alacia Bessette

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Newman, Peter C.

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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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

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise