Motivational Quotes

Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Life

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Norris, Kathleen

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

31.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

32.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu