Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Life

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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

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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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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

19.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

21.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

28.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

29.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

30.

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

Pliny The Elder

31.

Making a life comes before making a living.

32.

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

33.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

34.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

35.

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

Bible

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

38.

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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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

44.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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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.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare