Motivational Quotes

Life

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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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 fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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 constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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