Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Feidelson, Charles

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Shields, Carol

Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

John Lennon

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

Salisbury, Harrison

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

Piatt, Don

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

Wickett, Michael

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

Byron, Lord

11.

Live poor so you can die rich.

12.

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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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Caesar, Sid

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On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Buddha

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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Lehrer, Tom

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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Mandino, Og

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I think we're here for each other.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

Camus, Albert

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

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Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

Louis Schwartzberg

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Marcos, Imelda

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The cloud-capp'd towers,the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

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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'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

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nash, Ogden

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It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

Markiewicz, William

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They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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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 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 don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Dewey, Thomas E.

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.

Strait, C. Neil

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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

Walpole, Horace