Motivational Quotes

Life

The less routine the more life.

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Life

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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

Wickett, Michael

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Landers, Ann

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

Connolly, Cyril

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

William Shakespeare

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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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

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Young, J. Z.

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

John Lennon