Motivational Quotes

Life

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Life

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

10.

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 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

12.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

Dante Alighieri

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Bacon, Francis

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

19.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

20.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Pasternak, Boris

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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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

28.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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

31.

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

32.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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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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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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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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]