Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Newman, Peter C.

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

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

Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Santayana, George

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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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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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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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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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don