Motivational Quotes

Life

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

- Moody, Dwight L.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

James, William

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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