Motivational Quotes

Life

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brodsky, Joseph

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Proverb, Scottish

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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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 petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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.

35.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

40.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

45.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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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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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor