Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Life

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Camus, Albert

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales