Motivational Quotes

Life

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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

Osler, Sir William

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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

Erhard, Werner

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.