Motivational Quotes

Life

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

- Mille, Agnes De

Best Quotes about Life

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Salisbury, Harrison

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Camus, Albert

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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 is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.