Motivational Quotes

Life

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Life

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

Leary, Denis

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]

Bible

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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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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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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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 screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Miller, Henry

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We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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

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

Temple, Sir William

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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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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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 has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Larkin, Philip

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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William