Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Augustine, St.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ciardi, John

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Hayes, Helen

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Dryden, John