Motivational Quotes

Life

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Life

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Conrad, Joseph

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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 an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Welsh, John

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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

Hume, David

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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