Motivational Quotes

Life

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

- Pasternak, Boris

Best Quotes about Life

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

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

Giles, Henry

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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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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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Burns, George

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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 like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Field, Joanna

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Broun, Heywood

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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

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.