Motivational Quotes

Life

The less routine the more life.

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Life

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Santayana, George

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Baluch, Joy

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Austen, Jane

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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 moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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

Ward, William A.

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl