Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a horizontal fall.

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Life

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

May, Rollo

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

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

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

11.

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

Horace

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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

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

15.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Powell, Robert

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

William Goldman

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Cabell, James Branch

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

Boulanger, Nadia

30.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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.

34.

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

36.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

37.

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Pope John XXIII

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Broun, Heywood