Motivational Quotes

Life

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Life

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Camus, Albert

Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Khayyam, Omar

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

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Markham, Edwin

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthimer

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

Austen, Jane

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Kant, Immanuel

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

Ciardi, John

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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 Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

James, William

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

Klee, Paul

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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

29.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Crowley, Aleister

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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Pound, Ezra

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Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Dorgan, Thomas A.

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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

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In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Sizoo, Joseph R.

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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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

40.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

Forster, Edward M.

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Life is a dead-end street.

Mencken, H. L.

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Kennedy, John F.

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

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If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Camus, Albert

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert