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

William Shakespeare

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

Miller, Henry

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

Santayana, George

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Santayana, George

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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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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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Wickett, Michael

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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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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John