Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Santaguida, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

William Goldman

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Mountain, Marian

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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 secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Robert Heinlein

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Waitley, Denis