Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dewey, Thomas E.

Best Quotes about Life

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

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

Pasternak, Boris

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Rogers, Carl

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Wally'Famous'Amos

10.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

11.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

12.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Hewitt, George T.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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.