Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Curie, Madame Marie

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Cioran, E. M.

The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Larkin, Philip

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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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 an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

Einstein, Albert

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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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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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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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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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

James, William

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

May, Rollo

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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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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep.