Motivational Quotes

Life

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Best Quotes about Life

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

Nouwen, Henri

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

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

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

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

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Pliny The Elder

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Baluch, Joy

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Crisp, Quentin

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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To a wise man every day is a new life.