Motivational Quotes

Life

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

- Percy, Walker

Best Quotes about Life

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

Caesar, Sid

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

12.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Walpole, Horace

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

19.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

25.

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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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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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dickens, Charles

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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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

38.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Camus, Albert

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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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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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Austen, Jane

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest