Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

Live poor so you can die rich.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

James, William

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

21.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

26.

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

Larkin, Philip

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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

28.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.