Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Life

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

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

To a wise man every day is a new life.

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

Herold, Don

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.

Stark, Freya

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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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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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 a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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

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

Temple, Sir William

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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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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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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall