Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Samuel Butler

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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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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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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

Larkin, Philip

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

32.

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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 cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret