Motivational Quotes

Life

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

- Carson, Rachel

Best Quotes about Life

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

Dimnet, Ernest

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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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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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Menander of Athens

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

Linkletter, Art

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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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 cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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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.

37.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Caesar, Sid

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo