Motivational Quotes

Life

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Ward, William A.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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

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For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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 an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Dane, Frank

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.