Motivational Quotes

Life

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Life

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rogers, Carl

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Michelangelo

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Shields, Carol

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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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 about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Pepper, Claude D.

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

James, William

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

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