Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Harington, Donald

Best Quotes about Life

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

Duncan, Isadora

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

Life is just a journey

Diana, Princess of Wales

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Hanks, Tom

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

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Herold, Don

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

10.

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

11.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

12.

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

13.

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

14.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

15.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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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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A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.

Huxley, Aldous

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

19.

Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

20.

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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Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

Santaguida, Paul

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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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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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One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.

Carnegie, Dale

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

31.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Fields, W. C.

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

Erhard, Werner

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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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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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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Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier.

Alacia Bessette

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

Oprah Winfrey

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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Boulanger, Nadia