Motivational Quotes

Life

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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

Jordan, David Starr

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Santayana, George

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

Santaguida, Paul

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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

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

Santayana, George

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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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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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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 not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Hume, David

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Keller, Helen

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.