Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Life

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

Duncan, Isadora

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

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Norris, Kathleen

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

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

Coallier, Steven

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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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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey