Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

- Wally'Famous'Amos

Best Quotes about Life

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Austen, Jane

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

Delacroix, Eugene

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Southey, Robert

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

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

John Lennon

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.