Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Santayana, George

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Pasternak, Boris

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

Seneca

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.