Motivational Quotes

Life

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

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Best Quotes about Life

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.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Michelangelo

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Harington, Donald

In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Dickens, Charles

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

40.

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

43.

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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Russell, Bertrand

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