Motivational Quotes

Life

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Life

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

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

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

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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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 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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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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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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Billings, Josh

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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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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 foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher