Motivational Quotes

Life

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

- Buechner, Frederick

Best Quotes about Life

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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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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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Menander of Athens

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

James, William

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