Motivational Quotes

Life

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

Best Quotes about Life

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

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

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Redfield, James

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

Brodsky, Joseph

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

Lieberman, Gerald F.

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

Fieldes, Christopher

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

Dawson, Roger

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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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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Bierce, Ambrose

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

Heath, David M.

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In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

Socrates

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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Berenson, Bernard

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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Gable, Clark

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

Shields, Carol

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Proverb, Indian

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Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Reed, Lou

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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Woolf, Virginia

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Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Hopkins, 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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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.

Oprah Winfrey

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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Nee, Watchman

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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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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

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Half my life is an act of revision.

Irving, John

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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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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Dyer, Wayne

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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Morley, Christopher

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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Delacroix, Eugene

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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I am sure care's an enemy to life.

William Shakespeare

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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Leacock, Stephen B.

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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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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

James, William

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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Claypool, Les

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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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Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

Gusoff, Adrienne

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.

Havel, Vaclav

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Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Powell, Robert

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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.

Mead, Margaret