Motivational Quotes

Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Best Quotes about Life

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

Wright, Steven

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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 too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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

Camus, Albert

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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

Larkin, Philip

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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