Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Conrad, Joseph

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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

Maclaren, Alexander

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ciardi, John

28.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Herzen, Alexander

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

Shields, Carol

32.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Gellert

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Rubinstein, Arthur