Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Life

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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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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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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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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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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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

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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 long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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

Aleichem, Sholom

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Hume, David

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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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 what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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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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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

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

Ciardi, John

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris

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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale