Motivational Quotes

Life

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

- Antrim, Minna

Best Quotes about Life

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

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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

Butler, Samuel

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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.

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Making a life comes before making a living.

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria