Motivational Quotes

Life

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Life

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

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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 world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.