Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dawson, Roger

Best Quotes about Life

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Antrim, Minna

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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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 a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Santayana, George

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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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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden