Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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

Samuel Butler

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

James, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

Proverb, German

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Moses, Grandma

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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 just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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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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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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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

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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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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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Gellert

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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

Kornfield, Jack

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Proverb, Indian