Motivational Quotes

Life

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

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

Horace

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

Delacroix, Eugene

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 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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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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

Michelangelo

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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

Osler, Sir William

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

32.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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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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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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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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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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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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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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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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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell