Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Oprah Winfrey

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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 begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

James, William

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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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.

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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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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Shields, Carol

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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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. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Larkin, Philip

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven