Motivational Quotes

Life

Life loves the liver of it.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Life

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Daniel Akst

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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

Austen, Jane

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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

Santaguida, Paul

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Epicurus

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

38.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

43.

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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Crisp, Quentin

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.