Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ciardi, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

Rogers, Carl

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]

Bible

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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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

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Samuel Butler

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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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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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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 the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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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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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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

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein