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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Best Quotes about Life

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Camus, Albert

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Making a life comes before making a living.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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 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 energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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 art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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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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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Ward, William A.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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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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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi