Motivational Quotes

Life

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Life

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Gauguin, Paul

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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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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

Camus, Albert

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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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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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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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Percy, Walker

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Butler, Samuel

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Conrad, Joseph

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo