Motivational Quotes

Life

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

- Kempton, Murray

Best Quotes about Life

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

10.

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

Southey, Robert

11.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

12.

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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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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

17.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

18.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

20.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

25.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

26.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Seneca

29.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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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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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.

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Prochnow, Herbert

34.

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 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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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

38.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

42.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

47.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

48.

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

49.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.