Motivational Quotes

Life

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Life

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Erhard, Werner

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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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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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Persian

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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