Motivational Quotes

Life

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Life

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whitman, Walt

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

Cervantes, Miguel De

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

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

Giles, Henry

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is too short to learn German.

Porson, R.

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You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Epictetus

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...

Epicurus

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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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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

Proverb

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

Anderson, Hans Christian

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Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Pepper, Claude D.

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The city is recruited from the country.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

Ransom, Ralph

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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.

Whitman, Walt

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Antrim, Minna

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

Cioran, E. M.

27.

May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Buechner, Frederick

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Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Sheen, Fulton John

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Cook, Robert A.

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Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.

Piatt, Don

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

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Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

Eliot, T. S.

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

Mumford, Lewis

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Cowper, William

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

Camus, Albert

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Calhoun, John C.

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Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Billings, Josh

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Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Pirandello, Luigi

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Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

Kundera, Milan