Motivational Quotes

Life

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

- Markham, Edwin

Best Quotes about Life

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said,so. What did you think?

Wright, Steven

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

Foreman, George

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

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Coallier, Steven

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

Dyke, Henry Van

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

O'Neill, Eugene

And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale.

William Shakespeare

10.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

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In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

Hoggart, Simon

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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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Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Mumford, Lewis

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Life is a state of mind.

Warden, Jack

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Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Keller, Helen

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Linkletter, Art

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The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.

Yuan-Sou

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Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Butler, Samuel

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Herrick, Robert

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Blake, William

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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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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Rogers, Will

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

Byron, Lord

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May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

Hanks, Tom

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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 force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Thomas, Dylan

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

Lennon, John

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

Feidelson, Charles

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Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Allen, Fred A.

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Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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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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He lives who dies to win a lasting name.

Drummond, Henry

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

Broun, Heywood

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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally'Famous'Amos

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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

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Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

Nash, Ogden

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Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

Raban, Jonathan

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.

Brodsky, Joseph

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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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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