Motivational Quotes

Life

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Life

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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

Aristotle

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Hume, David

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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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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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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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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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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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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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

James, William

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill