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

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

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Oprah Winfrey

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Seneca

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell