Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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)

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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 is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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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 a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Robert Heinlein

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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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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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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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

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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To live is not breathing it is action.