Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

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

Fran Lebowitz

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

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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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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Coriolanus III

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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

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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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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Seneca

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

Austen, Jane

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Burns, George

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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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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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 state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.