Motivational Quotes

Life

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Life

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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

William Shakespeare

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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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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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Fran Lebowitz

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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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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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

26.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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