Motivational Quotes

Life

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

- Wilde, Stuart

Best Quotes about Life

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

Byron, Lord

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

Thoreau, Henry David

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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

Thibodeau, Robert

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 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

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

Osler, Sir William

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Kempton, Murray

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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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, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Billings, Josh

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

William Goldman

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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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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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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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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Michelangelo

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo