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

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Ovid

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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

Proverb, Indian

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Woody Allen

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.