Motivational Quotes

Life

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

- Shinn, Florence Scovel

Best Quotes about Life

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Butler, Philip

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Dyer, Wayne

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

Pasternak, Boris

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Conrad, Joseph

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.