Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Isaac Asimov

Best Quotes about Life

No one knows when they are well off.

Punch

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

Coriolanus III

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

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Ibuka, Massaru

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

James, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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 loves the liver of it.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace. Cultural centers that are unable to support a good bookstore. Civic centers that are avoided by everyone but bums. Promenades that go from no place to nowhere and have no promenaders. Expressways that eviscerate great cities. This is not the rebuilding of cities. This is the sacking of cities.

Jacobs, Jane

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We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Pascal, Blaise

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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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

Oprah Winfrey

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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 enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

Pliny The Elder

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

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

Linkletter, Art

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

Skynard, Lynard

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The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Movie, Forrest Gump

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

Carson, Johnny

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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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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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Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

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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

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Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

Dyke, Henry Van

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