Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Life

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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

Robert Heinlein

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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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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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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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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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 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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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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

John Lennon

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

Markiewicz, William

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

Horton, Doug

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All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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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

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Jordan, David Starr

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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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)

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian