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

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

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Norris, Kathleen

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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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

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Shields, Carol

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Welsh, John

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth