Motivational Quotes

Life

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Aleichem, Sholom

To a wise man every day is a new life.

I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Baudrillard, Jean

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.

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Forster, Edward M.

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

There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

Kennedy, John F.

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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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What is a city, but the people; true the people are the city.

Coriolanus III

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Buscaglia, Leo

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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Seneca

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Benet, Stephen Vincent

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

Jordan, David Starr

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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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We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Life It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

Shakespeare, William

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The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

Allen, Fred A.

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There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Salisbury, Harrison

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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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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Baez, Joan

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Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

Polgar, Alfred

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Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Welsh, John

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Life too near paralyses art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.

Purkey, William

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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Austen, Jane

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Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life flows on within you and without you.

Harrison, George

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Life is supposed to get tough.

Grammer, Kelsey

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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

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Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

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Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

Huxtable, Ada Louise

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Dylan, Bob

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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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Paris is the caf? of Europe.

Galiani, Ferdinando

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig