Motivational Quotes

Life

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

- Proverb, Scottish

Best Quotes about Life

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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

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

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

Hayes, Helen

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Dane, Frank

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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 purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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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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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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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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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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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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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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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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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

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

Samuel Butler

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean