Motivational Quotes

Life

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Best Quotes about Life

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pritchett, V. S.

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mountain, Marian

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Caesar, Sid

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.