Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

- Henry J. Tillman

Best Quotes about Life

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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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

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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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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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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

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Thibodeau, Robert

38.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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

Hume, David

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh