Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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

Gellert

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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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

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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

Temple, Sir William

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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 itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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

Herzen, Alexander

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bachelard, Gaston

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The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Hewitt, George T.

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

William Shakespeare

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

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul