Motivational Quotes

Life

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

- Osler, Sir William

Best Quotes about Life

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

James, William

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

Gellert

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Feidelson, Charles

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

May, Rollo

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

McMillan, Terry

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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

Nouwen, Henri

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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

Wright, Steven

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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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