Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Caesar, Sid

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Byron, Lord

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Robert Heinlein

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

McMillan, Terry

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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

Carson, Rachel

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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 too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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 not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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