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

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

Kornfield, Jack

This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.

Ovid

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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

Wickett, Michael

Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Huxtable, Ada Louise

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Austen, Jane

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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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

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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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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

Basset, Lucinda

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If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Baughan, Bill

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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

Cabell, James Branch

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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Duncan, Isadora

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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 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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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

Lorca, Federico Garcia

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

Gellert

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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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

Mead, Margaret

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If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Mountain, Marian

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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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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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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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Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel