Motivational Quotes

Life

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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Best Quotes about Life

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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

Markiewicz, William

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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

Michelangelo

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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

Menander of Athens

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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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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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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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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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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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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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Pasternak, Boris

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Daniel Akst

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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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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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.