Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Socrates

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

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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

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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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Menander of Athens

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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

William Goldman

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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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 essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life is not a dress rehearsal.