Motivational Quotes

Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

- Seume, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Erhard, Werner

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Seneca

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Keller, Helen

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

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo