Motivational Quotes

Life

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Life

Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Oprah Winfrey

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Rogers, Carl

10.

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

11.

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

12.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

14.

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

Pepper, Claude D.

15.

It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

16.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Making a life comes before making a living.

18.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

19.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

Brodsky, Joseph

21.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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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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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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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

32.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

36.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!