Motivational Quotes

Life

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Life

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

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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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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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steve Jobs

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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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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel