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 measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Seneca

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

17.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Menander of Athens

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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

20.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Baruch, Bernard M.

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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

28.

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

29.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Maclaren, Alexander

32.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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

Leacock, Stephen B.

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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.

Radner, Gilda

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

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

Cioran, E. M.

41.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Waitley, Denis

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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Herzen, Alexander

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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.