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

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Landers, Ann

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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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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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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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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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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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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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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 city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Making a life comes before making a living.

42.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield