Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Life

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

29.

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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Hewitt, George T.

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

Dane, Frank

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition