Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Anderson, Hans Christian

Best Quotes about Life

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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

Pritchett, V. S.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Santayana, George

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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

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Antrim, Minna

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace