Motivational Quotes

Life

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Life

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

McMillan, Terry

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb