Motivational Quotes

Life

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

- Nouwen, Henri

Best Quotes about Life

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Boese, Paul

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

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Gellert

26.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

27.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

29.

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

32.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Live poor so you can die rich.

36.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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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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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

Billings, Josh

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Russell, Lady R.

46.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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