Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Forster, Edward M.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

12.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

19.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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 comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Dante Alighieri

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

34.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way