Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Epicurus

Best Quotes about Life

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Hayes, Helen

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

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Hume, David

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

10.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

11.

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

Allen, Fred A.

12.

Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

Robert Heinlein

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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

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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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

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

35.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

37.

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Austen, Jane

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

50.

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