Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

- Schmaltz, David A.

Best Quotes about Life

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Mountain, Marian

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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

Camus, Albert

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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

Platen

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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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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr