Motivational Quotes

Life

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Life

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

In real life, however, you don't react to what someone did; you react only to what you think she did, and the gap between action and perception is bridged by the art of impression management. If life itself is but what you deem it, then why not focus your efforts on persuading others to believe that you are a virtuous and trustworthy cooperator?

Jonathan Haidt

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Anderson, Hans Christian

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Shaw, George Bernard

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

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Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Morley, Christopher

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Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

Diane Ackerman

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

Norris, Kathleen

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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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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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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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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Nisami

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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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The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh

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Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Tomlin, Lily

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Seume, Johann G.

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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Aristotle

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

James, William

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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

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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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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Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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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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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Live, let live, and help live

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

Douglas, Michael

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

Gellert

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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.

Proverb

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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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Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Facult, F. Paul

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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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Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Augustine, St.

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Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bacon, Francis

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

Baudrillard, Jean