Motivational Quotes

Life

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

11.

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

13.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Feidelson, Charles

16.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

17.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

19.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

21.

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

25.

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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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

28.

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

29.

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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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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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Horace

45.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Proverb, Persian

48.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William