Motivational Quotes

Life

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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

Hume, David

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Landers, Ann

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

Hanks, Tom

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

Herold, Don

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Camus, Albert

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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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 just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein