Motivational Quotes

Life

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

- Harris, Sidney J.

Best Quotes about Life

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Kempis, Thomas

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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

Fran Lebowitz

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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 solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

John Lennon

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hanks, Tom

31.

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

Hume, David

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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

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Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert