Motivational Quotes

Life

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Connolly, Cyril

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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 finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

12.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Larkin, Philip

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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

Santayana, George

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dane, Frank

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret