Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Coriolanus III

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Seneca

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

Robert Heinlein

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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

Horace

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Epicurus

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus