Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

- Gauguin, Paul

Best Quotes about Life

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

Pliny The Elder

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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

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

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Seneca

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The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

Miller, Henry

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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

Condoleeza Rice

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

15.

My art and profession is to live.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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

Landers, Ann

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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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

Proverb, Scottish

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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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Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Camus, Albert

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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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 isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

29.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

Michelangelo

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

Oprah Winfrey

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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

Mark Hodder

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The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

Barrymore, John

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

Boom, Corrie Ten

43.

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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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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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Orben, Robert

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.