Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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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 like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

John Lennon

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Coallier, Steven

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando