Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Havel, Vaclav

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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

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

James, William

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Proverb, Indian

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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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

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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

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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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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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert