Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Alacia Bessette

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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

Broun, Heywood

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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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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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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 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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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De