Motivational Quotes

Life

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

- John Lennon

Best Quotes about Life

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Camus, Albert

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Foreman, George

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Tremain, Rose

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Carpentier, Georges

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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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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

Russell, Lady R.

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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Ward, William A.

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

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

Truman Capote

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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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 is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Bacon, Francis

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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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In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction really can save lives.

Daniel Akst

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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Heath, David M.

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If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.

Fo-Yan

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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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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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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 hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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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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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.