Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Erhard, Werner

Best Quotes about Life

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Crisp, Quentin

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Live poor so you can die rich.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Austen, Jane

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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

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

Coriolanus III

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

28.

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

Hume, David

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Proverb, Persian

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

45.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria