Motivational Quotes

Life

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Life

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Crisp, Quentin

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Menander of Athens

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Russell, Lady R.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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