Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Larkin, Philip

Best Quotes about Life

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Seneca

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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 like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Welsh, John

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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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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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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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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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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