Motivational Quotes

Life

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

William Shakespeare

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Coallier, Steven

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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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Live poor so you can die rich.

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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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 but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Presser, Ross

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

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.