Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dorgan, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

Carson, Rachel

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

Cioran, E. M.

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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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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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Camus, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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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 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 is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish