Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Ciardi, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Kempton, Murray

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.

Horton, Doug

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Hume, David

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Calhoun, John C.

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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

James, William

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma