Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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

Fields, W. C.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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

18.

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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

23.

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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Jordan, David Starr

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

Isaac Asimov

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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

30.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

42.

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George