Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Rexford, Eben Eugene

Best Quotes about Life

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Norris, Kathleen

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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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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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

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Camus, Albert

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Socrates

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.