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

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Landers, Ann

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Harington, Donald

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Welsh, John

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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

Hanks, Tom

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others