Motivational Quotes

Life

The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

- Oprah Winfrey

Best Quotes about Life

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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

Delacroix, Eugene

Live poor so you can die rich.

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

Kant, Immanuel

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

William Shakespeare

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Santayana, George

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.

Barbara Hall

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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