Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

- Fran Lebowitz

Best Quotes about Life

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

Duncan, Isadora

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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.

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

10.

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

Wolfe, Thomas

11.

Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

12.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

13.

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

14.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

15.

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

Wise, Alfonso The

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

18.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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

20.

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

21.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

25.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

27.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

28.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

29.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Feidelson, Charles

31.

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

32.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

34.

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.

Lebowitz, Fran

35.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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

Lennon, John

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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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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

45.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.