Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Life

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

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Making a life comes before making a living.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mccarthy, Mary

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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

McMillan, Terry

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

10.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Leno, Jay

13.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

14.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

16.

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

17.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

18.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

19.

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

20.

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

Schmaltz, David A.

21.

Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

22.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

23.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

24.

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

James, William

25.

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.

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.

30.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

31.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

33.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

34.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

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

Lehrer, Tom

42.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

43.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

44.

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

45.

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

46.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

47.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

48.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

50.

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