Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Camus, Albert

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

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

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

Curie, Madame Marie

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

10.

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

11.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

12.

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

13.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

14.

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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

16.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

17.

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

Samuel Butler

18.

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

19.

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 like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Broun, Heywood

26.

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

28.

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

29.

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

30.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

32.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

33.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

35.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

39.

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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

Billings, Josh

41.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

42.

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

Dimnet, Ernest

43.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

44.

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

James, William

45.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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

Herzen, Alexander

48.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

49.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

50.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert