Motivational Quotes

Life

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Life

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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

Clark, Frank A.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Santayana, George

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

10.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

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

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

13.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

17.

To a wise man every day is a new life.

18.

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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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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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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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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

30.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

Michelangelo

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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

42.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

43.

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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

Kant, Immanuel

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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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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus