Motivational Quotes

Life

To live is not breathing it is action.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Life

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

11.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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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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 measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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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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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

Norris, Kathleen

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.