Motivational Quotes

Life

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

- Dyke, Henry Van

Best Quotes about Life

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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

Horton, Doug

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

McMillan, Terry

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

11.

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

Dickens, Charles

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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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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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

Camus, Albert

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

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The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]

Bible

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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

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Menander of Athens

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

Cioran, E. M.

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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Temple, Sir William

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

Herold, Don

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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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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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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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