Motivational Quotes

Life

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Kant, Immanuel

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Camus, Albert

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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 slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.