Motivational Quotes

Life

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

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

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Michelangelo

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

10.

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 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

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

13.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

14.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

16.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

17.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

18.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

19.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

22.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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

Coriolanus III

24.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

25.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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

Austen, Jane

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

30.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kennedy, John F.

32.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

33.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

34.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

35.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

36.

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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

41.

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

Broun, Heywood

42.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

43.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

47.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination