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

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Lennon, John

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Santayana, George

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Erhard, Werner

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo