Motivational Quotes

Life

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Life

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

Havel, Vaclav

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

La Bruyere, Jean De

Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth

When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

Gables, Anne Of Green

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Burns, George

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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Dante Alighieri

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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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

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Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Forster, Edward M.

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

28.

The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Calhoun, John C.

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Proverb, Scottish

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

Brown, Les

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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 something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

43.

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

Allen, Fred A.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Pasternak, Boris