Motivational Quotes

Life

The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Life

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Hanks, Tom

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

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

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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

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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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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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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

Bacon, Francis

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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

Santaguida, Paul

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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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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil