Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rexford, Eben Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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

Wise, Alfonso The

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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 dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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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

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Seneca

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip