Motivational Quotes

Life

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Best Quotes about Life

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Samuel Butler

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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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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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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

Field, Joanna

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Billings, Josh

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Wickett, Michael

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand