Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

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.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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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 in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Ben Stein

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Moses, Grandma

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Daniel Akst

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Lennon, John

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

Welsh, John

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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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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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic