Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Cabell, James Branch

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Dante Alighieri

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

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

Augustine, St.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

10.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

11.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Samuel Butler

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Canetti, Elias

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

48.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane