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

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Bacon, Francis

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Camus, Albert

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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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

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Carson, Rachel

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.