Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

Calhoun, John C.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

Live poor so you can die rich.

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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

Moses, Grandma

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Hume, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Gellert

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Pope John XXIII

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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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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There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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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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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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

Klee, Paul

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David