Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Wolfe, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

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

Prochnow, Herbert

If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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

Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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

Santayana, George

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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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

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo