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

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

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Carlyle, Thomas

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Stoppard, Tom

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Shields, Carol

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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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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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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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

Fran Lebowitz