Motivational Quotes

Life

Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Life

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

When in Rome, do as Rome does.

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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

Keller, Helen

All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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

Woody Allen

Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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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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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

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

Miller, Henry

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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

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

Horton, Doug

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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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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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

Proverb, Persian

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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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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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.