Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

Making a life comes before making a living.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Larkin, Philip

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My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Fulghum, Robert

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

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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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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Prather, Hugh

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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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In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Spengler, Oswald

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

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What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?

Henry, O.

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

Wickett, Michael

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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

Lin-Chi

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Boom, Corrie Ten

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All that man has will he give for his life.

Bible

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

Ellen DeGeneres

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Mark Hodder

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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Brodsky, Joseph

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America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

Mills, C. Wright

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Leno, Jay

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

Butler, Samuel

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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.

Ruskin, John

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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