Motivational Quotes

Life

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

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

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fran Lebowitz

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

Pepper, Claude D.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

10.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

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

12.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

13.

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 does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Cioran, E. M.

16.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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 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

20.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

23.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

24.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

25.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

28.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

29.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

30.

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

Newman, Peter C.

31.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

33.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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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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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

36.

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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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

41.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

44.

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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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

46.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

47.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

48.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life is too short to learn German.