Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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.

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

Keller, Helen

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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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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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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

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

42.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.