Motivational Quotes

Life

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Life

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Hume, David

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Rogers, Carl

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Jordan, David Starr

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Caesar, Sid

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Horace

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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