Motivational Quotes

Life

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Making a life comes before making a living.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Oprah Winfrey

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

31.

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Baluch, Joy

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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

Gellert

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

Orben, Robert

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand