Motivational Quotes

Life

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Horace

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

10.

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

Santayana, George

11.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

12.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

19.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

20.

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

Ward, William A.

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

22.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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

26.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

29.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

35.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

41.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

43.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

48.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda