Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Buscaglia, Leo

Best Quotes about Life

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Santayana, George

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

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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

Eliot, T. S.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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

Herzen, Alexander

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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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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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

Polgar, Alfred

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace