Motivational Quotes

Life

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Life

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 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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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

Dante Alighieri

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Hayes, Helen

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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 drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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