Motivational Quotes

Life

All that man has will he give for his life.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Life

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

11.

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

13.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

14.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

15.

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

Horace

16.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

17.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

18.

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

19.

We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

20.

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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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

24.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

25.

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

26.

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

27.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

28.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

29.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

30.

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

31.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

32.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

33.

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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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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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

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

Simon, Neil

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

38.

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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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

40.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

44.

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

Burns, George

45.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.