Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

- Peter De Vries

Best Quotes about Life

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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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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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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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Russell, Lady R.

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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

Dyer, Wayne