Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Life

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Southey, Robert

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wise, Alfonso The

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Munger, Thornton T.

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Dawson, Roger

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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

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

John Lennon

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace

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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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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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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

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Moses, Grandma

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

Larkin, Philip

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Landers, Ann

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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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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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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