Motivational Quotes

Life

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Best Quotes about Life

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Camus, Albert

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

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

Hayes, Helen

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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

Harington, Donald

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Thibodeau, Robert

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Brendan Gill

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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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

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Pasternak, Boris

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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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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Cabell, James Branch

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.