Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

- Lehrer, Tom

Best Quotes about Life

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Antrim, Minna

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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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

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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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.