Motivational Quotes

Life

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Life

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.

Hoagland, Edward

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wright, Steven

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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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 has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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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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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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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

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

Fields, W. C.

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Pope John XXIII