Motivational Quotes

Life

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

10.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

12.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

13.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

14.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

18.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

19.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

20.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Lin-Chi

23.

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Bacon, Francis

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

27.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

28.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

36.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

46.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.