Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Brodsky, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Ciardi, John

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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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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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

William Shakespeare

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord