Motivational Quotes

Life

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Life

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

18.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

19.

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

Proverb, Indian

20.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

21.

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

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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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

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

29.

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

30.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo