Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Herold, Don

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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

Eliot, T. S.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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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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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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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 was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Crisp, Quentin

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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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.

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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