Motivational Quotes

Life

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Life

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Bible

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.

Kempton, Murray

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.

Cioran, E. M.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Dimnet, Ernest

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Weil, Simone

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Lao-Tzu

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Washington is a city of people doing badly what should not be done at all.

Gurney, Robert

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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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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Calvino, Italo

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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vries

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

Oppenheimer, Martin

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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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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Steinbeck, John

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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Robbins, Anthony

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Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

Santayana, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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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

28.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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

Isaac Asimov

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

33.

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

34.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Burnett, Ivy Compton

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Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

Proverb, Italian

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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

O'Reilly, Radar

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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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

Austen, Jane

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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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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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Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Presser, Ross

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It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Hume, David

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.

Fieldes, Christopher