Motivational Quotes

Life

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Life

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Gellert

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

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

Baluch, Joy

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

13.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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 does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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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

26.

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Lennon, John

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

Foreman, George

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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