Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

11.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Making a life comes before making a living.

31.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Horace

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

37.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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

Santayana, George

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.