Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Pliny The Elder

Best Quotes about Life

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Propp Jr., Fred

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Linkletter, Art

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pliny The Elder

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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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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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.