Motivational Quotes

Life

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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

Proverb, Indian

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

Santaguida, Paul

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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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Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Gauguin, Paul

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Pasternak, Boris

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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

Antrim, Minna

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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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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

May, Rollo

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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

Hume, David

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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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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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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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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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly

Warhol, Andy

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian