Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Gauguin, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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

Bacon, Francis

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Camus, Albert

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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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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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ward, William A.

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Keller, Helen

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane