Motivational Quotes

Life

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Life

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Robert Heinlein

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Byron, Lord

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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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 loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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

Horace

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.