Motivational Quotes

Life

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.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Seneca

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

Presser, Ross

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Socrates

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schmaltz, David A.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Landers, Ann

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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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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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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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

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo