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

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

Dawson, Roger

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Russell, Lady R.

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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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

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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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

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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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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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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

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges