Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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

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

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

William Shakespeare

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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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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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Oprah Winfrey

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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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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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

Hanks, Tom

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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