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

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

Hanks, Tom

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

Wilde, Stuart

Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.

Oprah Winfrey

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rogers, Carl

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Frankl, Viktor E.

All of life is a foreign country.

Kerouac, Jack

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

Caesar, Sid

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Baluch, Joy

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

Proverb

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

Feidelson, Charles

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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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The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist -- this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul -- a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

Mead, Margaret

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Harris, Sidney J.

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

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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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To live is not breathing it is action.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Curie, Madame Marie

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There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Those who live are those who fight.

Hugo, Victor

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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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It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Booth, Evangeline Cory

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Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. [About Paris]

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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 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

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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

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This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Wordsworth, William

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A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.

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The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Mille, Agnes De

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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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Life itself is the proper binge.

Child, Julia

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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Santayana, George

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Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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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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I found Rome brick, I left it marble.

Augustus, Caesar

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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.

Oprah Winfrey

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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell

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Life is fickle; the fair man doesn't invariably win.

Mark Hodder

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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Nietzsche, Friedrich