Motivational Quotes

Life

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

- Claypool, Les

Best Quotes about Life

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

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

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg