Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

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

Ben Stein

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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

10.

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

11.

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

Caesar, Sid

12.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

14.

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

15.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

21.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

30.

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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

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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

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

Seneca

34.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

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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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

May, Rollo

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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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

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

49.

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

James, William

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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