Motivational Quotes

Life

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

- Ellis, Havelock

Best Quotes about Life

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Blackie, Professor

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

10.

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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

17.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

24.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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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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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

40.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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

Russell, Lady R.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

46.

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Ciardi, John

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