Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Best Quotes about Life

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

30.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

33.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Herold, Don

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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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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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