Motivational Quotes

Life

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Life

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Forster, Edward M.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

10.

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

12.

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

Santayana, George

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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

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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

Hayes, Helen

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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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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Russell, Lady R.

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

32.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

33.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Byron, Lord

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.