Motivational Quotes

Life

Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Best Quotes about Life

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Proverb, Persian

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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

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

John Lennon

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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

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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

Samuel Butler

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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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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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 means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Dante Alighieri

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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

Baluch, Joy

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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 not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

Austen, Jane

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare