Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Samuel Butler

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Simon, Neil

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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 a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

John Lennon

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

Harington, Donald

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.