Motivational Quotes

Life

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

- Broun, Heywood

Best Quotes about Life

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Young, J. Z.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Allen, Fred A.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Horace

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.