Motivational Quotes

Life

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Best Quotes about Life

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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.

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

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

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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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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Santaguida, Paul

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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 not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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 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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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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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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

Coallier, Steven

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.