Motivational Quotes

Life

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Life

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Austen, Jane

12.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Wright, Steven

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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

Mark Hodder

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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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 short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Herold, Don

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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 raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy