Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Life

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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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 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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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

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

Caesar, Sid

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Robert Heinlein

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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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 as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Dawson, Roger

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Havel, Vaclav

45.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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.