Motivational Quotes

Life

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Life

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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

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

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

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

10.

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

Field, Joanna

11.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

12.

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

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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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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

15.

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

Ovid

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

18.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

19.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

22.

Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

24.

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

25.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

26.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

27.

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

Wright, Steven

31.

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 world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

33.

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

Austen, Jane

34.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

35.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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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

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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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