Motivational Quotes

Life

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

11.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

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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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Hayes, Helen

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

17.

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

24.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

25.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

27.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

30.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

31.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Shields, Carol

34.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

35.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Rogers, Will

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace