Motivational Quotes

Life

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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Best Quotes about Life

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gauguin, Paul

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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

Horace

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

James, William

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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

30.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life flows on within you and without you.