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 atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Mountain, Marian

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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 a wise man every day is a new life.

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

James, William

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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

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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

Socrates

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

Hewitt, George T.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.