Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Antrim, Minna

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

Horace

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

Fields, W. C.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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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

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

McMillan, Terry

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

33.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Connolly, Cyril