Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best Quotes about Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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

Proverb, Indian

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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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 painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Giles, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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.