Motivational Quotes

Life

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Life

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Rogers, Carl

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

10.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

11.

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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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! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

18.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

20.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Santaguida, Paul

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

27.

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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

30.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

34.

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

35.

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

36.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

37.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

38.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

39.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Herold, Don

48.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

49.

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

50.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard