Motivational Quotes

Life

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Best Quotes about Life

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Shields, Carol

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, 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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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Simon, Neil

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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 is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

James, William

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

John Lennon

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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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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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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 short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.