Motivational Quotes

Life

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Life

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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

Harington, Donald

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

Dimnet, Ernest

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

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

Lin-Chi

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Gellert

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You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Mountain, Marian

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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

Connolly, Cyril

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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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

Keller, Helen

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

Markiewicz, William

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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

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

Larkin, Philip

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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 may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is a horizontal fall.