Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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

Austen, Jane

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

Baluch, Joy

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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

Walpole, Horace

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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

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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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 is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Lin-Chi

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Fields, W. C.

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Coallier, Steven

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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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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