Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Feidelson, Charles

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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 is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pasternak, Boris

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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 a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Temple, Sir William

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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