Motivational Quotes

Life

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

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

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Pritchett, V. S.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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 just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

13.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Santayana, George

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian