Motivational Quotes

Life

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Life

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

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Robert Heinlein

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

11.

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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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Norris, Kathleen

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

21.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

22.

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

27.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

29.

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

Broun, Heywood

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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

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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

37.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.