Motivational Quotes

Life

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

- Ibuka, Massaru

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Blake, William

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

Coallier, Steven

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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 allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

16.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

17.

Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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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

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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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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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 little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Camus, Albert

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

29.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

30.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

32.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

34.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis