Motivational Quotes

Life

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

- Calhoun, John C.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Aristotle

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Hayes, Helen

11.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

12.

Making a life comes before making a living.

13.

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

Nouwen, Henri

14.

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

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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

16.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

17.

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

Larkin, Philip

18.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

25.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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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

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

31.

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

32.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

35.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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

Wickett, Michael

37.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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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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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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

46.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Frankl, Viktor E.