Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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

Dante Alighieri

What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.

Brown, William Adams

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Heath, David M.

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

McMillan, Terry

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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

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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

Menander of Athens

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Live poor so you can die rich.

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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 is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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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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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Isaac Asimov

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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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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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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.