Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

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

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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

Ciardi, John

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Brodsky, Joseph

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Presser, Ross

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ovid

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert