Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Woody Allen

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Ciardi, John

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

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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

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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 a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Shields, Carol

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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