Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

- Proverb, Indian

Best Quotes about Life

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

Santaguida, Paul

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Truman Capote

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Antrim, Minna

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

26.

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

Dryden, John

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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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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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

41.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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

44.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil