Motivational Quotes

Life

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Life

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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

Hanks, Tom

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

Russell, Bertrand

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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

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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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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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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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

Herold, Don

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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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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Newman, Peter C.

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there