Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

- Feidelson, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

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 a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

James, William

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

Herold, Don

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Pliny The Elder

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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

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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 is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver