Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Brodsky, Joseph

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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

May, Rollo

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dickens, Charles

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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 something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

Antrim, Minna

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David