Motivational Quotes

Life

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Propp Jr., Fred

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Camus, Albert

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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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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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 without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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 very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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

William Shakespeare

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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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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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Hayes, Helen

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren