Motivational Quotes

Life

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

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Best Quotes about Life

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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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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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, 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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Field, Joanna

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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Brodsky, Joseph

28.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

29.

Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

30.

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.

Nouwen, Henri

31.

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

32.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over!

35.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

36.

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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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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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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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

40.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

43.

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

44.

Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Mark Hodder

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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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