Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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

Powell, Robert

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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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