Motivational Quotes

Life

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Life

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Dryden, John

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Brendan Gill

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Coallier, Steven

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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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