Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Life

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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

Herzen, Alexander

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Angelou, Maya

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Fran Lebowitz

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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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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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

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin