Motivational Quotes

Life

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Life

My life is a battle.

Voltaire

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.

Hemingway, Ernest

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan

Life's but a day at most.

Burns, George

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

Shields, Carol

Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

10.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

11.

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

Russell, Bertrand

12.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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

15.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

Ciardi, John

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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Miller, Henry

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

18.

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

Cabell, James Branch

19.

Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

25.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.

27.

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

28.

Only those live who do good.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

29.

One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.

Wolfe, Thomas

30.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Baluch, Joy

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Huxley, Aldous

38.

Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

39.

Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man.

Oppenheimer, Martin

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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Fuller, Thomas

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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

Gauguin, Paul

43.

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

44.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

Pope John XXIII

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

46.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

47.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Ellis, Havelock

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Seattle, Chief

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen