Motivational Quotes

Life

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Life

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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

William Shakespeare

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

11.

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

12.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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 not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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

Herold, Don

17.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

22.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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 not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

27.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

30.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

31.

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

Schmaltz, David A.

32.

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

39.

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Kornfield, Jack

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose