Motivational Quotes

Life

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Santayana, George

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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 life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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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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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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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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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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

Conrad, Joseph

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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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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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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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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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

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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

Mountain, Marian

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

Eliot, T. S.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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