Motivational Quotes

Life

Life flows on within you and without you.

- Harrison, George

Best Quotes about Life

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Carson, Johnny

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Dickens, Charles

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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

Wickett, Michael

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

Gusoff, Adrienne

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Kornfield, Jack

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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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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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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 is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Isherwood, Christopher

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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

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

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When we exercise self-control on a given occasion, we win for ourselves a little credibility we can rely on the next time around. Pretty soon we develop a reputation to ourselves that we want badly to uphold. With each test that we meet, our resolve gains momentum, fueled by the fear that we may succumb and establish a damaging precedent for our own weakness.

Daniel Akst

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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Allen, Woody

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Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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

Debevoise, P. L.

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The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

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

Mark Hodder

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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