Motivational Quotes

Life

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dimnet, Ernest

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Field, Joanna

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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.

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell