Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

- Aleichem, Sholom

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

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 days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean 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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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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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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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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

23.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

29.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

30.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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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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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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