Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Best Quotes about Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

31.

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

Miller, Henry

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Santayana, George

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Robert Heinlein

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.