Motivational Quotes

Life

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Dickens, Charles

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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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

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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

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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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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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 a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Baluch, Joy

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.