Motivational Quotes

Life

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Life

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Young, J. Z.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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

Caesar, Sid

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

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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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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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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

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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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 marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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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 just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles