Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Hume, David

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Boese, Paul

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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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

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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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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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Russell, Lady R.

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

Camus, Albert

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane