Motivational Quotes

Life

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

- Pritchett, V. S.

Best Quotes about Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Pliny The Elder

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

Dawson, Roger

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean