Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Life

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Field, Joanna

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

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

Cabell, James Branch

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

Hanks, Tom

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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

11.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

12.

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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Gellert

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Wilde, Oscar

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

27.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda