Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

- Movie, Forrest Gump

Best Quotes about Life

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

Dyer, Wayne

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Santayana, George

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

11.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

15.

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

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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

Billings, Josh

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Lennon, John

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

William Shakespeare

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou