Motivational Quotes

Life

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

- Propp Jr., Fred

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Markiewicz, William

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lehrer, Tom

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Camus, Albert

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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Samuel Butler

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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

Linkletter, Art

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles