Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is too short to learn German.

- Porson, R.

Best Quotes about Life

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

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

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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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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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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

Oprah Winfrey

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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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

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

Santayana, George

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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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 is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.