Motivational Quotes

Life

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

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

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Camus, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Menander of Athens

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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

Herzen, Alexander

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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

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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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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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Eliot, T. S.

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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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

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

28.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

29.

To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Butler, Philip

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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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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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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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

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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

45.

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

Dryden, John

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.