Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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

Brendan Gill

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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

James, William

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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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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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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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

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Samuel Butler

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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

Calhoun, John C.