Motivational Quotes

Life

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Life

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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

Pasternak, Boris

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

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

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

10.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

11.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

15.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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

Gable, Clark

20.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Ciardi, John

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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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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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

Jordan, David Starr

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

30.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

31.

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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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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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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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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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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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 like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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

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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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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo