Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Life

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

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

William Shakespeare

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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

Facult, F. Paul

21.

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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Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

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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

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Wilde, Oscar

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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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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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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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.