Motivational Quotes

Life

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Life

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Dunnington, Lewis L

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

Foreman, George

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

Gellert

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

Kant, Immanuel

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

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Santayana, George

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

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Shields, Carol

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If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

Schaeffer, Francis

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Carson, Rachel

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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

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Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Better, Cathy

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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

Miller, Henry

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Baudelaire, Charles

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I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.

Wright, Steven

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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Mead, Margaret

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To a wise man every day is a new life.

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Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Schmaltz, David A.

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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Norris, Kathleen

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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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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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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

Russell, Bertrand

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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Heath, David M.

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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

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Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Feidelson, Charles

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The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.

Gannett, W. C.

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I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.

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There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Harington, Donald

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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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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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Propp Jr., Fred