Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Santaguida, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Pliny The Elder

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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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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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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

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De