Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Life

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

Sheen, Fulton John

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Herold, Don

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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

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

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

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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

Nash, Ogden

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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Santayana, George

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, Tom

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

33.

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

Churchill, Jennie Jerome

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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 is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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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

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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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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Temple, Sir William

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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie