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

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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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 a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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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.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

James, William

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

43.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton