Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Boulanger, Nadia

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Waitley, Denis

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Tomlin, Lily

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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 a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Shields, Carol

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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 at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hayes, Helen

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.