Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

To a wise man every day is a new life.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Proverb, German

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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

30.

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Ciardi, John

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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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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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And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

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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 can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.