Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

- Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Life

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.

Mumford, Lewis

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

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

Mountain, Marian

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

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

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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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

Osler, Sir William

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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

Morgan, Charles

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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 not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

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

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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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

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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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We don't beat the Grim Reaper by living longer, we beat the Reaper by living well and living fully, for the Reaper will come for all of us. The question is what do we do between the time we are born and the time he shows up. It's too late to do all the things that you're gonna kinda get around to.

Randy Pausch

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Foreman, George

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David 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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What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Maclaren, Alexander

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

Boulanger, Nadia

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In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

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All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Conrad, Peter

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.