Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Butler, Samuel

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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

The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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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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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Wright, Steven

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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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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Delacroix, Eugene

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Hume, David

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

William Shakespeare

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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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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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

Santayana, George