Motivational Quotes

Life

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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

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

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

10.

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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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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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

18.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

19.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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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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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

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Horace

24.

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

25.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

26.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

27.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

30.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

31.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

32.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

33.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

Caesar, Sid

35.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

39.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

40.

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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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

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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

45.

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

46.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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The city is recruited from the country.