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

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Keller, Helen

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, 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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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Santayana, George

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Horace

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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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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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo