Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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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 the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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

Seneca

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell