Motivational Quotes

Life

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Young, J. Z.

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

Socrates

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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 -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.