Motivational Quotes

Life

Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Life

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hume, David

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

11.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hayes, Helen

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

Santayana, George

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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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

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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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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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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Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Byron, Lord

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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 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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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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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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

William Shakespeare

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.