Motivational Quotes

Life

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

- Maclaren, Alexander

Best Quotes about Life

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Billings, Josh

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.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Dawson, Roger

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Kafka, Franz

The less routine the more life.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

Wise, Alfonso The

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

James, William

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Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Prochnow, Herbert

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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

Baker, Russell (Wayne)

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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Saroyan, William

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New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

Carson, Johnny

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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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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Santayana, George

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Dryden, John

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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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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

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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you.

Sara Zarr

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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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

Simon, Neil

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Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

Johnson, Samuel

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To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.

Smith, Lillian

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Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Wolfe, Thomas

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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

Hayes, Helen

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Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Steve Jobs

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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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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Stoppard, Tom

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Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."

Oprah Winfrey

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance -- nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city -- as one loses oneself in a forest -- that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Holdcroft, Thomas L.

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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

Seeley, Sir John Robert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius