Motivational Quotes

Life

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Horace

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Broun, Heywood

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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

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

Southey, Robert

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

Robert Heinlein

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.