Motivational Quotes

Life

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

- Ciardi, John

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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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 search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

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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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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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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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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

Ruskin, John

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

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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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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

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When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

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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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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace