Motivational Quotes

Life

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

- Caesar, Sid

Best Quotes about Life

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

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Ciardi, John

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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

Curie, Madame Marie

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Tomlin, Lily

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Coriolanus III

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Isaac Asimov

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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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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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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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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Osler, Sir William

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey