Motivational Quotes

Life

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

- Ciardi, John

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

18.

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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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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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

32.

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

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

Hewitt, George T.

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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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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

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Platen

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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

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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 is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian