Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

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

Seneca

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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

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

Hume, David

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

44.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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 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

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.