Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Santayana, George

Best Quotes about Life

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Keller, Helen

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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

Michelangelo

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Hayes, Helen

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Larkin, Philip

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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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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 man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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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

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Prochnow, Herbert