Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Steve Jobs

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Brecht, Bertolt

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ciardi, John

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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 a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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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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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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