Motivational Quotes

Life

The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

- Fieldes, Christopher

Best Quotes about Life

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

Waitley, Denis

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

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Larkin, Philip

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Goldsmith, Oliver

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Boese, Paul

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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 an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Curie, Madame Marie

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Osler, Sir William

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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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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

Lennon, John

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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 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

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Shinn, Florence Scovel

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

J.K. Rowling

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

Maclaren, Alexander

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Thoreau, Henry David