Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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 is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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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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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, Indian

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

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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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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Broun, Heywood

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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.