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

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

McMillan, Terry

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

43.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Santaguida, 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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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul