Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Life

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

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Kornfield, Jack

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Hume, David

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Moses, Grandma

31.

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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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Augustine, St.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.