Motivational Quotes

Life

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

10.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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

12.

A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

13.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

14.

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

Southey, Robert

15.

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

16.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

17.

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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

20.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

21.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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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

23.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

26.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

27.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

28.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

35.

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

Blake, William

36.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Pepper, Claude D.

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

47.

Making a life comes before making a living.

48.

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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 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