Motivational Quotes

Life

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

- Caesar, Sid

Best Quotes about Life

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Billings, Josh

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Dryden, John

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri